17 Jun 00:42
--You are what you eat. If regurgitation is all you eat, you will only poop out more vomit
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17 Jun 00:41
--Well, I think influences are fine, nothing wrong with it at all....but yeah everyone is cycling these influences out there, and not that many are coming up with unique versions, so the risk becomes sucking in all that uninspired regurgitation.
17 Jun 00:40
--like that thing when people started drawing when they were into anime and have to unlearn the style
17 Jun 00:40
--Yeah I went through that too, which is why I cut myself off from most of it. But no harm looking, as long as it isn't fucking with your own process
17 Jun 00:39
--its weird, i feel like i have been influenced by stuff that i dont want my work to be
17 Jun 00:38
--haha well it's all the abstraction thing I guess....not designed, just chaotically cool
17 Jun 00:38
--I look at my floor tiles....MORE design inspiration in those patterns than on art station :)
17 Jun 00:37
--yeh or at least dont look at conceptart and fantasy illustration all the time
17 Jun 00:36
--Fuck looking at other people's work if you really want to develop your own thing. READ instead, and immerse yourself in all sorts of visual languages
17 Jun 00:36
--Yeah that's a strange one innit? Why I love getting inspiration from books. You conjure up the image based on your own visual experience.
17 Jun 00:35
--which is why some people get away from social media and artstation etc so their imagination can grow independently into sth more unique
17 Jun 00:35
--i guess the only way to control that is to only expose yourself to images you want to be influenced by
17 Jun 00:33
--@john i cant really control what my mind is imagining when i read anything, its just all based on everything ive seen up to that point
17 Jun 00:32
--I have a question for both of you guys. When you guys read a scifi book. Do you guys imagine the visuals from scratch? Or do you guys pull from other scifi stuff?
17 Jun 00:31
--Blah, fuck SW. You should watch Jodorowsky's Dune, which is a documentary on the almost making of the movie. SO good
17 Jun 00:30
--Been wanting to do my own version of Dune for ages...like everyone else and their dog haha